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Can Beacon Hill reform itself when the State Senate President and the new House Speaker rake in so much lobbyist cash? To hear our state legislators talk lately, Beacon Hill is all about reforming the sketchy, poorly governed relationships between lawmakers and lobbyists.

At the midway point of Governor Deval Patrick's first term, we issue a report card for his cabinet As we watch President Barack Obama replace the federal government's old, unpopular, Republican department heads with fresh, bright talent, it's hard not to think back two years, to the start of Governor Deval Patrick's first term as governor of Massachusetts.

With a crucial state-legislature session looming, Boston residents turn to untested newbies to fight for their share of the pie At this incalculably critical time — with a fiscal nightmare threatening billions of dollars of state-government spending and momentous budget decisions to be made — everyone in Massachusetts wants to be represented on Beacon Hill by someone with clout.

As our 43rd president scrambles to screw further with Mother Nature, a look at the ways our planet will be better off under Obama The planet Earth usually tries to stay out of politics. It doesn't endorse candidates. It doesn't run attack ads. It doesn't even register as a lobbyist.

Impotent on the issues, the GOP turns to scare tactics. Be afraid! The Republicans appear headed to a second straight national pummeling, which will leave it marginalized in the federal government and an increasing number of state houses. Many party faithful are already noting the need for the GOP to move back toward the moderate center to survive. But the conservatives with microphones are heading down a very different path — and their followers, who now dominate the Republican Party, are going right with them.

The Phoenix ranks the individuals who will hold the most sway over the right-wing message machine in 2009, and beyond. Imagine what will happen once the relatively sane folks now running the White House and the Republican National Committee pack up and go home?

Will the fallout involve other officials? State senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of public corruption -- charges at a level far above and beyond any she has previously faced.

Public Corruption Squad of the FBI arrest State Senator Wilkerson on complaint of extortion and theft. Public Corruption Squad of the FBI arrest State Senator Wilkerson on complaint of extortion and theft.

The devastating wall street crisis has a potential silver lining — if you’re a Massachusetts politician looking for a foothold The current US financial disaster will roil Massachusetts residents in myriad ways.

This election, with Obama having stoked pennant fever in Denver, it is the Dems who have cornered the excitement market
The selection of gun-shooting, anti-abortion, creationist, doctrinaire conservative Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s vice-presidential nominee has finally got the GOP’s conservative base excited.